Suni Lee and an epochal moment for Hmongs in America
Suni Lee and an epochal moment for Hmongs in America
Posted: Jul 29, 2021 3:21 PM
Updated: Jul 29, 2021 3:21 PM
Posted By: By Ray Sanchez, CNN
The story of Suni Lee s rise as Olympic gold medalist in many ways reflects the larger struggles of the Hmong people as one of the country s most marginalized Asian American groups.
Lee, 18,
winner of the women s individual all-around gymnastics final, is the first Hmong American Olympian.
Like the story of the estimated 309,000 Hmongs who have settled in the US, her journey has been painful and turbulent. We were nomadic and we didn t have a place to belong and I feel like we fought adversity, said Koua Yang, athletic director at Como Park Senior High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, where many Hmong refugees settled in the 1970s.
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